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Satire and the law: an interview with German lawyer Gabriele Rittig

• Brigitte Adriaensen

  Brigitte Adriaensen is a Professor of Hispanic Studies at Radboud University and a Professor of Literary Studies at the Open University of the Netherlands. She was the principal investigator of the project “The Politics of Irony in Latin American Literature on Violence” (funded by the Dutch Research Council, 2011–2016, NWO Vidi grant), and published on this topic in journals like The European Journal of Humor Research and Revista Iberoamericana.

  , Andrew Benjamin Bricker

  Andrew Benjamin Bricker is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University and a Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670–1792 (Oxford University Press, 2022).

  , Alberto Godioli

  Alberto Godioli is Senior Lecturer in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, and program director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL). He obtained his PhD in 2012 from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He is currently Principal Investigator on two international projects on humor and the law, namely “Forensic Humor Analysis” (funded by the Dutch Research Council, 2022–2027, NWO Vidi grant) and “Cartoons in Court” (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study, 2020–2023, Constructive Advanced Thinking grant).

  and Ted Laros

  Ted Laros is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of Literature and Art History at the Open University of the Netherlands. He is the author of Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2020: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom (Law, Culture and Humanities Series, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018; Open Access edition 2020).